{"id":11385,"date":"2023-10-12T18:38:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T18:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/ona24\/speaker\/deborah-douglas\/"},"modified":"2023-10-12T19:10:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T19:10:52","slug":"deborah-douglas","status":"publish","type":"ona_speaker","link":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/ona24\/speaker\/deborah-douglas\/","title":{"rendered":"Deborah Douglas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deborah D. Douglas is director of the newly created Medill Midwest Solutions Journalism Hub at Northwestern University and a senior lecturer. She is a founding co-editor in chief of The Emancipator, a digital platform that reimagines abolitionist newspapers for a new day. She previously served as the Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor at DePauw University; senior leader with The OpEd Project, amplifying underrepresented expert voices, and founding managing editor of MLK50: Justice Through Journalism.<\/p>\n<p> Douglas is author of the \u201cU.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler\u2019s Guide to the People, Places, and Events That Made the Movement,\u201d the first-ever travel guide to follow the official civil rights trail in the South, and a contributor to \u201cFour Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019.\u201d Among her many recognitions, she received Chicago\u2019s prestigious Studs Terkel Award and the Society of American Travel Writers 2021 Guidebook of the Year. <\/p>\n<p> While teaching at Northwestern University, she spearheaded a graduate investigative journalism capstone on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and taught best practices in Karachi, Pakistan. 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